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06.18.08MicroBell 1: Identify it, Acknowledge it + Let it Go!I've been facing considerable stress recently. Some of it's low-level project-related distress, some of it's higher-level (which I'm typically excellent at managing) eustress. I'm a devout GTDer, nearly two years in...I find it typically helps with the day-to-day minutiae, for high level (metta) work, I practice yoga and meditation. My first serious yoga teacher told me she never listened to the radio or watched television. “If it’s important enough, someone will call me.” I thought it was crazy. Now, I understand that what she was doing was minimizing distractions. It allowed her to focus on the ...
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06.05.08How to Make Your Users Happy: Real LoveYesterday I had a branding consultation session with a client and a few questions came up that I'm going to tease out here. This post will cover questions and answers on how to attract (in new media speak: how to get people to engage your brand) and keep users to your site happy. This is the first of two posts on this subject. How do I attract people to my site/brand/product? There are so many answers to that question. It helps if you live in Boulder where everyone and their mother (it seems) has a new venture of some ...
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05.28.08A Dash of Design Makes All the Difference: The Designer DishesEvery time I pick up the proverbial hatchet and start hacking away at design and CSS I discover a heap of trouble. It's never as simple as "redesigning" my site. Inevitably some tiny existential crisis emerges from the code-struggle. If I move it 10 pixels left will it better reflect my "balanced" personality? I mean, come ooon, I think to myself. You are so much bigger than a pixel! You can do this! This morning I emerge from the code heap and give you the new design of gwenbell.com: Welcome to it! Paul, my friend and ...
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05.12.08Sk*rt is Now Kirtsy: Proof You Can Deal with Dicks & Come Out on TopMy obsession with domain names goes back about five years. I realize I'm late to get on the bandwagon, but now that I'm on it, I'm freakishly excited by purchasing them. 9.95 to "own" a piece of the web? Shit, I spend triple that on a pair of earrings. Last week I bought three new domain names, each one yet a tiny flame of an idea in my mind, but a flame, nonetheless. Owning the domain, to my mind, is the first step in mastering another corner of the web. Today sk*rt, one of my favorite ...
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05.10.08Carolina-Colorado Cross-Pollination + A Contest!I've been blogging my brains out, in one form or another, all week. First up, on Tuesday we had a great turnout to the May New Tech Meetup (looking around, I estimate that a record 30-40% of the audience was female--fantastic turnout). The highlight of the night for me was Brightkite's presentation. The presentation itself appeared to be done on the fly, but I liked that about it. The staid and solid 12 page power points bore me...I've seen them done multiple times at NTM. I like to see something fresh and Brightkite has it. I won't ...
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05.06.08Interview: Wayne Sutton Catches Gwen Bell in Chapel HillDuring the year I spent in England, when I got homesick I would throw myself onto the floor (dramatically) and cry to the crooning of Ryan Adams. Oh My Sweet Carolina, what compels me to go? Sometimes, I truly miss the place...the blue skies. But if my heart is in Carolina, my head is in Colorado. Gwen Bell is a TechStar from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo. This weekend I took a whirlwind tour of North Carolina and while there met with Wayne Sutton (of Twitter & MSNBC fame). He interviewed me about the startup scene in Colorado & ...
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